Trying to control four tattoos was impossible, and soon found he could control none of them. The Tattooed Man tried unsuccessfully to blind his foe with a giant lightbulb and sent all his tattoos after Green Lantern. The emerald gladiator knew his enemy could only control one tattoo at a time. Next Tarrant sent a flaming pinwheel after Green Lantern. He pressed a tattoo of a machine-gun firing plane but the hero dodged it. Tarrant was ready for his emerald pursuer as well. Two nights later, Green Lantern knew the Tattooed Man had struck. Green Lantern discovered his pattern and coated the last treasure, a set of jewels, with an invisible aura from his power ring. In a few days he had stolen almost all of the Cranfield treasures. Tarrant made his escape while Green Lantern battled an eagle tattoo.Ĭontinuing his revitalized life of crime, Tarrant became known as the Tattooed Man. The emerald gladiator was surprised to find his power ring had no effect over the tattoo images, in fact, the chemicals Tarrant used had a yellow base, the one color the power ring could not overcome. The first real threat he had to face was Green Lantern Hal Jordan. Wielding his tattoos, the sailor robbed the Coast City Arts Center in broad daylight. With his new found powers, they would be. As a child, Tarrant had always wished those riches were his. Tarrant planned to steal the treasures of Baron Cranfield, a billionaire Coast City resident that his parents had worked for. As tattoos the objects would always be near at hand. Tarrant painted a small arsenal of weapons such as axes, dragons, throwing anchors, and wheels of fire on his body.
He learned he needed to draw an object for it to form, and then concentrate to activate it. Using sponges, he soaked up the chemicals to study later.īack at his boarding house room, Tarrant experimented with his discovery. Tarrant returned the next day, posing as a reporter. The bomb exploded, knocking out the lab wall and freeing him from the authorities.
He threw it at the wall, and concentrated. Still touching the chemicals, Tarrant was surprised when the liquid turned solid, becoming a real bomb. Tarrant wished it was a real bomb to aid him in escaping the lab. He thought he saw the shape of a bomb on the floor of the lab, but upon touching it realized it was just the spilled chemicals. Tarrant groped in the darkness, looking for an escape. Stumbling in the dark, a night watchman's gunfire made Tarrant jump back, knocking over a shelf of chemicals.
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A burglar alarm sounded after Tarrant had cracked open the lab's safe. Late one night, he broke into a laboratory, planning to steal the payroll. Ten years later, Abel Tarrant's career as a sailor had given way to a life as a small-time criminal. Unfortunately for his future self, young Tarrant returned to the studio where the tattoo artist would eventually hook him up with a burglary crew. The future man doubled over in pain, allowing Tarrant to escape. He warned Tarrant to turn his life around and not make the mistakes he did. The man claimed to be him twenty years in the future.
A pair of tattoo-created tigers kept the studio owner and another would-be customer at bay while the man held him up against the store's wall. Tarrant was accosted by a man with tattoos across his body which had the remarkable ability to come alive. It would be some time before he realized the path he was choosing for himself. Twenty years ago, while visiting Captain Carl's Tattoo Studio by the Coast City seaport, Abel Tarrant had only expected to get a tattoo. However, later exploits have shown him on the wrong side of the law once again. He was believed to be killed later by Goldface, but popped up after that, accidentally crossing paths with Guy Gardner.Īfter having been temporarily absorbed into the body of his pupil, John Oakes, it seemed as if the Tattooed Man had permanently turned his back on crime. He was first stopped by Green Lantern Hal Jordan, but returned to face him with other foes of the Justice League, eventually becoming a member of Libra's Injustice Gang of the World. Abel Tarrant was a sailor who got hold of a formula that allowed him to create tattoos he could animate with a touch.
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